4I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.
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My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,
To Timothy, my dearly beloved son: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
Unto Timothy, my own son in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord.
The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.
I beseech thee, O LORD, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 3-8)In these verses we have, I. The good report that the apostle had received concerning this friend of his: The brethren came and testified of the truth that is in thee (3 John 1:3), who have borne witness of thy charity before the church , 3 John 1:6. Here we may see, 1. The testimony or thing testified concerning Gaius—the truth that was in him, the reality of his faith, the sincerity of his religi…
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